Bearing Fruit

(c) 9/10/11, Kathy Fannon

Matthew 21:19 - 22 (NASB)

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He said to it, "No longer shall there ever by any fruit from you." And at once the fig tree withered.

Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, "How did the fig tree wither all at once?" 

And Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

Jesus cursed the fig tree because it was a fake, it was false; it wasn't doing what it was created for. It had leaves on it and it looked good, but it had no fruit on it. That tree didn't have something that would give life - even though it was pretty.

Are you bearing fruit or just looking good?

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